CNN’s Jake Tapper: Doocy’s Fox News Would Never Defend Me From POTUS Smear (Not True)

Appearing on Monday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, CNN host Jake Tapper falsely claimed to the eponymous ABC host that Peter Doocy’s employer in Fox News “would never come to my defense” A president is a person who has the power to make decisions. called him “a stupid son of a bitch”As President Biden had done hours before to Fox White House correspondent.

Tapper’s claim was not only a lie, but laughable one given the fact that Fox News repeatedly stood with CNN when the Trump administration repeatedly tried to bar them from events and even denounced Trump’s use of the term “enemy of the people.”

Kimmel asked Tapper if he was okay with Doocy. “life”It has been “boring now that Donald Trump isn’t President” and the CNNer replied it hasn’t seeing as how “the current President just called a reporter a dumb son of a bitch[.]”

Kimmel then asked him if he thinks Doocy is indeed “a dumb son of a bitch,” but Tapper wouldn’t bite and instead argued he doesn’t “think any president should be calling any journalist”In this instance, “the question was fairly anodyne.”

Kimmel later made a Robert Durst reference to his hot mic. He observed that he was “defending Peter Doocy” despite “Fox News say[ing]…you’re on Team Biden, and you are a mouthpiece for the Democrats.”

Kimmel has added Doocy “is indeed a dumb son of a bitch,” which led Tapper to say he doesn’t “agree with that and I will say, like, standards for decency don’t have to do with whether or not you like the people that are being treated poorly.”

The lead State of the UnionThe host repeated his lies: “I recognize that Peter’s channel probably would never come to my defense like that, but it is what it is.”

Here are facts regarding Fox’s defense of CNN for the #FactsFirst host and network. Collins was interviewed July 25, 2018. Was bannedA Trump speech about tariffs in the Rose Garden. According to Collins, the administration said they “did not like the questions I posed to President Trump earlier in the day during an event in the Oval Office.”

Fox News quickly defended Collins. A statement that you make that they stood “in strong solidarity with CNN for the right to full access for our journalists as part of a free and unfettered press.”

On that day’s Special Report, host Bret Baier To viewers: “As a member of the White House press pool, Fox stands firmly with CNN on this issue of access.”

Baier is the man I am referring to. Kimmel just over a week later that defending her was a “no-brainer.” In January 2019, Baier that he was against Trump’s use of the term “enemy of the people.”

And when CNN’s Jim Acosta He had his badge removed from the pressFox News was filed by Trump White House An amicus brief curiae supporting him as part of a lawsuit to Have his badge restored.

But we digress.

Earlier in the show, Kimmel went after Doocy in his monologue (click “expand”):

KIMMEL – Joe Biden was back today in huge fashion. Biden spoke on the hot mic about Fox News’ Peter Doocy. Doocy asked — he — he doesn’t really ask questions. He just — he says obnoxious things. Biden asked him whether inflation was a political risk ahead of the midterm election, and he said yes. Then we heard Biden give a Doocy.

[CLIP]

[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE]

KIMMEL: Now, that’s — there’s old snarky malarkey. We’ve been wondering where he was. I’m surprised Doocy didn’t ask Biden to weigh in on the sexiness of M&M’s. The big story, especially if you’ve been watching Fox News, is about M&M’s. 

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To see the relevant ABC transcript from January 24 and 25, click “expand.”

ABC’sJimmy Kimmel Live
January 24, 2022
Eastern, 11:43

JIMMY KIMEL: Sorry for [Donald Trump Jr.]Joe Biden is back in big shape today. Biden was heard on a microphone talking about Fox News reporter Peter Doocy. Doocy asked — he — he doesn’t really ask questions. He just — he says obnoxious things. Biden asked him whether inflation was a political risk ahead of the midterm election, and he said yes. Then we heard Biden give a Doocy. 

BIDEN: That’s a great asset.

PRESS AIDE – Thank you.

PRESS AIDE – Thank you.

INFLATION: Is there more inflation in BIDEN? This is a foolish son of a bitch.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE]

KIMMEL: Now, that’s — there’s old snarky malarkey. We’ve been wondering where he was. I’m surprised Doocy didn’t ask Biden to weigh in on the sexiness of M&M’s. The big story, especially if you’ve been watching Fox News, is about M&M’s. 

(….)

January 25, 2022
Eastern 12:32

JIMMY KIMMEL: Is your life boring now that Donald Trump isn’t President? 

JAKE Tapper: He didn’t call a reporter dumb today. 

KIMMEL: He did and in — I know you don’t care — you usually don’t give out opinions, but that reporter, Peter Doocy, is he a dumb son of a bitch?

[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]

TAPPER: I don’t think any — I don’t think any president should be calling any journalist a dumb son of a bitch. Peter Doocy was fair in saying that the question was rather anodyne. It was just —

KIMMEL: Yeah.

TAPPER: — will inflation —

KIMMEL – He technically didn’t call him a dumb boy of a bitch. He said he was, and was captured on microphone.

TAPPER: I mean, caught — it would be like you calling me a dumb son of a bitch right now, caught on microphone. He was right there in front of the microphone. 

[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]

KIMMEL: Right, right. But don’t you think — 

TAPPER: It wasn’t — it wasn’t — it wasn’t like, you know — it wasn’t like Robert Durst — 

KIMMEL: Aren’t you —

TAPPER: — confessing to murder in the bathroom forgetting his mic on. This was during a press conference. 

KIMMEL: — it was like that. It was as simple as that. You —

TAPPER : This was the toilet.

KIMMEL: — but wait a minute. Fox News says you are — you know, that you’re on Team Biden, and you are a mouthpiece for the Democrats and yet, here you are, defending Peter Doocy, who, as far as I have been able to tell, is indeed a dumb son of a bitch.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]

[AUDIENCE APPLAUSE]

TAPPER: So — I — I do not agree with that and I will say, like, standards for decency don’t have to do with whether or not you like the people that are being treated poorly. This is just a matter of the standard. And yes, I recognize that —

[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]

KIMMEL: Right. 

TAPPER: — I recognize that Peter’s channel probably would never come to my defense like that, but it is what it is. It is important to note that Biden actually called Peter Doocy for an apology. The two did indeed have a telephone conversation. 

KIMMEL: Oh, he did?

TAPPER: He did. 

KIMMEL: Oh, wow. 

TAPPER: So — so, according to our CNN —

KIMMEL – I am sure Trump did it. [LAUGHS]

[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER] 

TAPPER: Yeah. 

KIMMEL : He doesn’t call you, don’t you? 

TAPPER: No. 

KIMMEL: Yeah.

TAPPER: He gave — he gave out maps to our homes. Yeah.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]